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  1. Instead of focusing on New Year�s resolutions, let�s look back at the things B2B SEOs did that were working in the past year. Let�s focus on how we can enhance what we know works well in content marketing, performance, and collaboration. Source: Search Engine Watch

  2. Users on the go looking for a business�s phone number in the search results expect to be able to access that number and call with a couple clicks. Is your brand leveraging the options for click to call in the search results like this top retailer? Source: Search Engine Watch

  3. The new crawl error reports will make it easier for webmasters to track down crawl errors, why they are happening, and how to fix them without having to do a lot of back and forth checking with tools to determine what exactly was going on. Source: Search Engine Watch

  4. Mobile advertising is on the rise in Russia, India, Brazil, and China, which are all experiencing huge growth in the number of mobile users. Here's an overview and some tips on mobile marketing campaigns and strategies in the BRIC nations. Source: Search Engine Watch

  5. Many of those who pursue link building have had a tough year. Google's verbal and physical assault on link building practices has been unrelenting. Here's a comprehensive review of all that goes into deciding what to do in link building these days. Source: Search Engine Watch

  6. Google AdWords has officially announced a new way for advertisers to track and measure conversions with their new flexible conversion counting. The goal is to help advertisers track the types of conversions that work best for their business model. Source: Search Engine Watch

  7. Many Google users in Europe are seeing a new variety of search results. The redesign makes it harder to distinguish paid from organic results, increases the font size for titles, removes underlines from links, and uses a hard to read gray text. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  8. Teenagers can be a fickle group. Brands that win with teens stay ahead of the curve and are present on the platforms where their audience is, delivering stellar and engaging content to connect with them on a one-to-one level. Here are some examples. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  9. Google has unveiled a new version of its Android operating system called Android Wear, designed specifically for use in wearable devices, as the firm seeks to provide developers with tools to build apps for new hardware form factors. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  10. Big data doesn't have to be big and scary if you have simple elements in place. The challenge is harnessing it in a meaningful way. The secret to making big data work for you is in knowing which data sources matter and when to exclude data. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  11. Task analysis is a step-by-step analysis of the users' task, from their perspective. Taking this approach to user research and task analysis will help you discover unmet opportunities to leapfrog your competition and dominate your market. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  12. Is it possible to tell if your website has been impacted by one particular Google algorithm? That will be extremely tricky, according to Google's Matt Cutts. In 2012 alone, Google rolled out 665 changes to how search results are ranked. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  13. Giving your website an active role in current events is a lot more efficient than creating media attention from scratch. Here's how to prepare your website for future events so you can attract links with your prompt response. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  14. Early on, search engine marketing (SEM) was originally defined as the umbrella under which both paid and organic search would fall. Over the years, however, "search engine marketing" has come to mean different things, depending on who you ask. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  15. Google added user experience rules to its PageSpeed Insights tool, which helps site owners create a better mobile experience for website visitors. The tool was updated to a mobile-friendly design and documents were translated into more languages. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  16. Just as you wouldn't typically up and run any type of race without some training, the same preparation is required to execute effective content marketing. Here are seven content marketing takeaways learned from running a relay race. Source: Search Engine Watch

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  17. You watch your competitors, they watch you, so let’s see what they’re looking at. I’m reasonably certain we’ve all had a good look around our competitor’s ecommerce sites and I’m pretty sure they’ve had a good look around ours as well. It’s been industry practice to do ‘competitor shopping’ for decades – but in the digital world where everything is measurable is there anything we can learn from them while they are trying to learn from us? Firstly to be able to achieve the following we will need our competitor’s IP address. This is most likely not the IP address of their web server, but the IP address of their office / home. If your competitor is medium to large i…

  18. Google is celebrating Halloween 2012 with an interactive haunted house logo, complete with jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, scary creatures, and a black cat. Clicking on various features causes the image to come to life, complete with a spooky soundtrack. Source: Search Engine Watch

  19. In August, Google promised to begin lowering the search rankings of "piracy" websites, but now there are complaints that Google is being too slow about it. As a result, Google now faces the prospect of a government review in the UK. Source: Search Engine Watch

  20. Google+ Local is a powerful tool for small businesses targeting local customers because it combines customer reviews and local search into one platform. Here are two key ways small businesses can use Google+ Local to acquire new customers. Source: Search Engine Watch